“I come from Quebec, where talk-radio hosts (often disparagingly referred to as ‘trash radios‘) were, for quite some time, something like demigods to me. When a friend urged me to make a Quebec horror movie, I immediately thought of them: those voices so often accused of spreading hate and further deepening an already wide social divide.
But SPAG is not a horror film. The monsters in horror movies, lurking under our beds, are devoid of humanity; they are driven solely by an unfathomable taste for cruelty. Whether we want to admit it or not, these radio hosts are not monsters. And they have a bed.“